Samba 4 simple file sharing

propofol · 08-05-2014, 01:53 PM

I have recently made the mistake of doing a dist-upgrade on Debian Jessie and have been unable to mount samba shares with "session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL" type errors. It seems the problem has been that my samba server has been upgraded to version 4.1.11-Debian.

All the tutorials I could find explains how to set samba up as an active directory domain controller. This seems much more involved than what I need since I only have a few windows PCs & I also need samba to access shares from my android tablets.

So far I have configured /etc/samba/smb.conf with "samba-tool domain provision" as a standalone server.

I have added users with "pdbedit -a -u smbuser"

When I try to get information about the user with "wbinfo -i smbuser", I get this:

Code:

failed to call wbcGetpwnam: WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND
Could not get info for user smbuser

Is there any way to set up Samba4 just as a standalone server without messing with domains?

Regards,
Stefan

Ser Olmy · 08-06-2014, 03:04 PM

Sure; security = user still works the way it always has. No AD, no domains, no provisioning; just local users (with passwords stored in the smbpasswd database) and the possibility of redirecting unknown users or bad passwords to a guest acount.

propofol · 08-06-2014, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ser Olmy

Sure; security = user still works the way it always has. No AD, no domains, no provisioning; just local users (with passwords stored in the smbpasswd database) and the possibility of redirecting unknown users or bad passwords to a guest acount.

Thanks for the suggestion. The "security = user" was already placed in my smb.conf file by "samba-tool domain provision". I was not able to authenticate & it looked like there was a domain authentication problem with this error when I tried to look up info on a specific samba username: "WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND". What setting should I have in my resolve.conf to make samba happy?

Code:

       workgroup = HNET
        realm = HOME.LAN
        netbios name = D3
        server role = standalone server
        passdb backend = samba_dsdb
        printcap name = /dev/null
        load printers = no
        disable spoolss = yes
        printing = bsd
        security = user
        dns proxy = no
        map to guest = Bad User
        wide links = yes
        public = yes

Regards,
Stefan